Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

None comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.