All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

The less inhibited you are the better.

There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.

Always keep your best work.

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

Practice like good musician; draw every day.

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

Start small and keep going.

Being creative is not something you do. Its something you are. Each moment of ur life is creative

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

I think when you die, you die.

Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

In my heart of hearts, I thought, if we get a 1-0 win and the team doesn't perform well, that would feel good.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.