A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.

It is better to have a warm than cold heart.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

Sometimes stepping away from what you desire the most, is the best action to take: because it gives the process the momentum to take its own course.

Love can be a very frightening thing.”“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.