A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

The true traveler never arrives.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication to excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy the process.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to

Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.