I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

The important thing is somehow to begin.