The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

Look for the opportunity, not for the consistency.

People would have to learn to deal with old monsters again. Stay in their houses. Shutter their windows.

People that really know me, they adore me.

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

Play the game, never let the game play you.