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

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.

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.

The artist should always be the student.

An emotional debt is hard to square.

Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.

Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.

Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.

My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.