By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

You can't think and act like a victim and expect victory.

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.