Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.

The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad.

Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid’s history