“The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will beable to correct them.”

“The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.”

“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing…Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.”

“If you get to live your life over, make the same mistakes -- only sooner.”

“If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.”

“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.”

“The sooner you start planning your life, the sooner you will live the life you dream of.”