Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.

Envy derives from insecurity.

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.

The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all that you feel.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.

I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.

I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

Pascal and Voltaire both probably had IQs in the neighborhood of 200.