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

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.

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.

There are very few people who do what I do.

Babies are the buds of life ready to bloom like a fresh flower to refresh humanity.

Mountains in the distance remind me of you.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Cartooning will destroy you

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world.” That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this time he'd exposed his heart.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.