In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.

Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well.

The more one comes to know men the more one comes to admire the dog.

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.

We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.

Beautiful clear day in Beverly Hills. The sweet smell of Botox is in the air.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

Worship is admiration becoming adoration.

How can art make a difference in the world?