Drawing and composition are the same thing.

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.

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

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.

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind?

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.

I will never stop loving you. No one can change that. No matter what happens later, I’ll still love you.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.