I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

The role of United Nations is not policing but awakening the heart center of the humanity.

While we live let us live.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

Memory is your image of perfection.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.