Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

Can we screw the 'sorry' part and let me hit you back instead?" Vishous to Butch

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.