Color is only beautiful when it means something.

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 see a vision, its the vision of tomorrow, no force can stop it from manifesting, not even the sun nor the moon.

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other.

No problem, I'll get a penguin to show us

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.