"Draw, Anthony. Draw, Anthony, draw and don't waste time." That's what Michelangelo said to his apprentice. Good advice for us too. ~ page 73, The Creative License, by Danny Gregory

"Whatever you do with your life--whatever you end up achieving or not achieving--the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill."

-Frederick Buechner

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. ~ Robert Henri

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. ~ Robert Henri

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. ~ Robert Henri