I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do.

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].

But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation

If each one of us starts thinking, learning, and understanding more about water and the fact that we are water-based ourselves, then we can start to love, thank, and respect water in our daily lives.