Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

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.

Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.

There is no bad.. nor good.. there just is.. and that is the present moment. How does that look.. depends on where you are along the journey.. Blink.. and the perception can change.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.