The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

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.

Life is a practice. When you 'fail, ' you can immediately begin practicing again.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

Are you gonna follow your soul? Or just the style of the day?

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.