Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

The artist should always be the student.

Enough !! of the lion ruling the wild territory, time to vote the panther gentlemen.

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners.

It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Thank all the people in the world who are always 10% kinder than they need to be.

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.