No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

Victory stands on the back of sacrifice

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I’m petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!

There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

From moment to moment one can bear much.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.