Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

I want to convey how beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and make that dream a reality.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.