We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

Remember the Morning Star, ” he enjoined. But I didn’t tell him about Tegg, whose face was the starry void itself...

He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God.

She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better.

Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.

I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I don't really get tired of talking to other people.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.