A sound body keeps a sound mind.
Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches a great age, there will be calls for a Retrospective Exhibition of a life's work.
I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.
A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.
Instead of 'counterrevolutionaries,' liberals' opponents are called 'haters,' 'those who seek to divide us,' 'tea baggers,' and 'right-wing hate groups. ' Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals 'liberals'-and that makes them testy.
You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.
The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry. . . is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse.
It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.