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.

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.

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

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.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

Semper Dowland semper dolens.

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.