Be like a great sponge and soak up all that inspires you, and occasionally wring some back out to inspire others.
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form. May your pencils have wings.
If an attunement or sensory response can be evoked from the viewer, a most exquisite form of communication has been established, and the artist's role fulfilled.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Creativity takes courage.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.