Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

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.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.