Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life.

I enjoy making the decisions.

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

I don't think any of us thought Donald Trump could get this far.