Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

We do as we feel not as we think

In the beginning, all the world was America.

Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

Yeah, I cut class...I got a D. Cause History meant nothing to me Except a definite nap. That's why I always sat in the back.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.