The less inhibited you are the better.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.

Always keep your best work.

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

Practice like good musician; draw every day.

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

With patient, you will get what you must have.

May you live a life as holy and perfect as you pretend it to be in Facebook

Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

With enthusiasm anything is possible.

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.