To Be An Artist Is To Believe

The Whole Of Nature Is An Endless Demonstration Of Shape And Form. It Always Surprises Me When Artists Try To Escape From This.

Painting And Sculpture Help Other People To See What A Wonderful World We Live In.

The Construction Of The Human Figure, Its Tremendous Variety Of Balance, Of Size, Of Rhythm, All Those Things Make The Human Form Much More Difficult To Get Right In A Drawing Than Anything Else.

Clever People Can Copy The Handwriting Of An Artist - It's Like Forging A Person's Signature.

The Secret Of Life Is To Have A Task, Something You Devote Your Entire Life To, Something You Bring Everything To, Every Minute Of The Day For The Rest Of Your Life. And The Most Important Thing Is, It Must Be Something You Cannot Possibly Do.