After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

Everyday when you wake-up, say to yourself: "Everyday, in everyway, I only get better, better and better!

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit