Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

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.

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

Putting a smile on a child's face can change the world, Maybe not the whole world but at least their world!

The time is my vehicle & the light is my fuel.

Don't keep all your feelings sheltered - express them. Don’t EVER let life shut you up.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

I see a lot of new faces. Especially on the old faces.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Our children are not going to be just "our children"