There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

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.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

All things human begin with words.

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

I liked the movie Splash a lot when I was little. I think we taped it when it was on TV, and then would watch the movie fairly often.

If you live your life in truth, the truth will out.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.