Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

Without the a test you don't have a testimony.

OK, thank you Yoshi. Between you, Vladimir, and Maryse, I won't understand a word this entire season.

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.