Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Do whatever you do intensely.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

A weak background is a deadly thing.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas and have it look like something when you stand back.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

Drawing is not following a line on the model it is drawing your sense of the thing.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.