To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.
I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way.
Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.
There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing onto the paper or canvas. The cheap stuff just makes for harder work and lesser results.
In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.
Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.
Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.
I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.
Horror movies are always a solid dollar. But a movie about Groucho Marx is a gamble. These things just are. Doesn't matter who you are.