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.

Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.