Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.

Nobody picks on a strong man.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

You know what I learned about Hawaiians? They're just blown up Mexicans!

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.