A weak background is a deadly thing.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion it shows that society is rotten to the core.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

I never saw a discontented tree.

I've reached my goal with snowboarding.

A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.

I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.