Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

In art the best is good enough.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.