I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.
I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.
Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.
Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.
Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.
Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.
Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.
George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.
Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.
Yet if we would know God and for other's sake tell what we know we must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high shining love of God someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope.