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.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

Emotions of every color create the rich work of art that is life.

these "sometimey" feelings are welcomed to stay... reminiscent of ying and yang: they need eachother to help me get through the good & bad days

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through.

God can only be comprehended as Love.

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.

Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.