As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.

Many fear mistakes. In TV and films you just re-shoot the scene. In life do the same and just shoot a re-take.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.