Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

The less inhibited you are the better.

There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.

Always keep your best work.

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

Practice like good musician; draw every day.

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.