Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

I just wanted to do something important.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

To create a positive and beautiful life, you have to focus on the positive side of life.

I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

You know that you know... but you don't know that you don't know.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.