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.

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

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

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.

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.

Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.

Try not to be too focused on pleasing others and end up losing your true self.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.