There is no art without contemplation.

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.

The insanity of love, and that’s why you’re trying to drive away with the park brake on.

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

You become what you continually think about.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Don’t depend on luck to solve problems.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.