What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.