Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

Don’t spend your time on and give your heart to any guy who makes you wonder about anything related to his feelings for you

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

And I am in love with light. Lock me in the sunshine.

Dont let the bastards grind you down?" Bran looked at me incredulously.

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.