The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

What you have to do is break all the rules.

I think you'll find that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. That last part, of course, is essential. --Devyn DuChien

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

I will move with the wind.

I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.