White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.