In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

.you are not him or her, you be you..

The main thing that determines your victory is your tie with God

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around

Learn as if you will live forever.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.