Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.

Envy derives from insecurity.

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

A boy's will is the wind's will.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.

I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely.

We must forgive our enemies.

Men must not only know, they must act.