Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

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.

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.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers

Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.