If You Want A Midget To Look

When A Young Artist Asked Me For Advice On Drawing The Human Foot, I Told Him, ‘the First Thing You Must Learn Is How To Take Your Shoe Off, And Then How To Take Your Sock Off, Then Prop Your Leg Up Carefully On Your Other Knee, Take A Piece Of Paper, And Draw Your Foot.’

The Rules Are Simple. Take Your Work, But Never Yourself, Seriously. Pour In The Love And Whatever Skill You Have, And It Will Come Out.

Anyone Can Negatively Criticize - It Is The Cheapest Of All Comment Because It Requires Not A Modicum Of The Effort That Suggestion Requires.

You Have A Coyote Inside You And You Have To Get It Out

[w]hen The Coyote Falls, He Gets Up And Brushes Himself Off; It's Preservation Of Dignity. He's Humiliated, And It Worries Him When He Ends Up Looking Like An Accordion. A Coyote Isn't Much, But It's Better Than Being An Accordion.