It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.

No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

Celebrate differences, give love, and more love. Anything short is a rigidity that cuts both ways and spawns odium and ire

I think most people are afraid to love because they want the freedom to suffer alone.

No, not me....no.........because I've already ended, and been given a new life, one that never ends

Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

Life is the art of being well deceived.