Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

Women shouldn't be in combat, " said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.

We are never separated. Our hearts are connected with a threadless garland called love.

I know I’m not supposed to say this, ” he said. “But I think I love you more than ever.”I took his hand and tried not to think about how happy his words made me.

Thanksgiving creates abundance.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!

Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.