Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

The less inhibited you are the better.

There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.

Always keep your best work.

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

Practice like good musician; draw every day.

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

I'll get it, " said Jough in his man-of-the-house voice, a full octave lower than his regular voice.

I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.

I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

Once you start overthinking it, it's like it ain't a feeling no more.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.