I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

I don't think I'm destined for love.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country.

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.