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

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.

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

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.

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

With our writings, we can right the world.

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School.

To break training without permission is an act of treason.

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.

I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy