I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

I'm always looking for the next challenge.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

Music is the human treatment of sounds.

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?