The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.

Envy derives from insecurity.

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Life never forgives weaknesses.

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.