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.

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.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

I am a man who loves my country, the United States.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Somebody'll be me, tomorrow or whenever. I've been doing this awhile. My time's limited. I've been doing this awhile.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.