No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

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 be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

When in doubt, give it out. Regardless of what is happening in your life, there is always someone else worse off that needs your help.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.

Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.