Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

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.

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.

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

I dwell on endless possibilities.

Words don't means

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.

If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who's coming in.

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.