Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / God

When we live in the past, there is no future.

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

I hope you guys stay with me forever, because I will always love you and support you

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

I think all life situations are built for you to be able to share.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.