The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.
The job of art is to turn time into things.
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
Love has the power to change everything.
Our hearts and souls are always the departing point for all thought, feeling and action.