...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

You won’t be able to take your eyes off the next four presenters: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA.

Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.