It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Mark Victor Hansen

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Leo Tolstoy

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Paulo Coelho

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Miguel de Cervantes

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Charles Mingus

1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.

Kurt Vonnegut

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

R. S. Donnell

I wanted to achieve something essential in life, something that is not measured by money or position in society. The mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambitions to achieve. They are my cathedrals, the houses of my religion. In the mountains I attempt to understand my life. They are the way I practice my religion. In the mountains I celebrate creation, on each journey I am reborn.

Anatoli Boukreev

Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.Build an eye.

Warren Ellis

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

Kin Hubbard