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.

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.

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.

There are very few people who do what I do.

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.

...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....

I don't know about you, but I celebrate being in love with life by smiling.

You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Observe the masses and do the opposite

You can't suffer over two things at once.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.