Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.

I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.