We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.

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.

Wanna beat the heatJust keep on rocking to the beat

First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie.

The beauty of life is not a lack of darkness, but it is in the presence of light.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

Where all life dies death lives.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.