The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.

No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

The forecast today is love all around.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

History is everything that has ever happened.