All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

I don't write to escape .. I write to Indulge

In this value driven and ‘connection economy’, skills & talents alone are dime-a-dozen, you need to be able to add value to others and build great connections

Ah, why should life all labor be?

Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.

I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

Enduring to the end requires total commitment to the Savior and to our covenants.

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.