Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Design is everything.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Tis of the tears which stars weep sweet with joy.

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

Journalism is merely history's first draft.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Why do we wear clothes? Genesis!

To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.

You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.