An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

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.

Praise is pushing back my daily worries and impending tasks to acknowledge my always present, never changing God.

Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.

Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.

In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.