What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

Because I am, just as you are you. We don’t always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.

There is no need to worry about whether you are capable of manifesting what you want. The truth is, the universe already is providing you exactly what you have asked.

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.