Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

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.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

You can't put a title card at the head of the movie and say, "Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane."

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.