I get my highs from using my eyes.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow.

Unless you have a crystal ballyou don’t know how thefuture is going to unfold.Focus on the things you caninfluence and don’t fretover the rest.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

I have a desire to help animals, the question of whether it makes financial sense, it's my money and I get to do what I want with it. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life.

Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.