You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

Always set small, realistic goals that you know you can achieve first. But don't give up on the bigger ones that may seem too far from your reach.

Guns are like men—only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.

The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

I've got over three-hundred pairs of shoes back home - I'm twenty-four years old and I wear a size four, so all my shoes are just cheap.