The artist should always be the student.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Dancing every day uplifts the soul.

The priest was Quinn's biggest danger of all.

Truth cannot be changed. When all the flowers of the world are dead, there will still be a true thing that is a flower.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?