Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.