Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

Service to humanity is service to God.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

Don't have stories; have sentences.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

I think that Comic-Con is just a wonderful forum. It's just the perfect place for our show and the fans have embraced us so wonderfully. I would be shocked, if we weren't back every year.

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.