So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?

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.

It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.