Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.

The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.

He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, "I have lived.

We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.

Take care not to wear stripes that are out of sync with your wrinkles.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.