The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

Do all the work while you still have strength.

It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.

In one moment, we are now forever, in one moment...

America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.