Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours, " Lifesong said. "My breath become yours.

What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.