The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.

If you've never gotten your heart broken, you've not used it well.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment

We are what we eat, so I eat as many veggies as I can!

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.