Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!

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.

The less inhibited you are the better.

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.

We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress.

Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

Teaching, without learning, is just talking

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

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