A personal website is vital, but it needs to change and evolve.

Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month.

Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

Nothing quite delivers the full experience of being out there like floating around soaking up the warmth of the early morning rays with a brush in hand.

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Where am I? (Nick) Hospital. (Kyrian) Really? No kidding? And here I thought I was at McDonald’s. (Nick)

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.