Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

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.

To help someone, don’t criticize or complain. Find what he does better and compliment him.

I remain in a state of surrender knowing the Universe is supporting me in creating a life I love.

The greatest obstacle to true learning is the inability to say "I don't know.

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

Good strategy, keep the conversation going until a guard notices the bodies outside the door. Maybe burst in to save you. Not a bad idea.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.