The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

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.

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.

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

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Never underestimate the power of telling a teenage boy he's risking his chances of getting laid. Works almost every time.

The next day was wonderful...and terrible. So, overall, I guess it was okay.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

I always talked to my players about today. It's the only day that matters.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.