A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

The price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.