Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.