Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

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.

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.

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.

God design of you is divine act.

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.