Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

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.

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

You were not born to make only a living but to live life.

There's a reason my only friends are written words

Never mistake motion for action.

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars.