Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.