Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you.

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

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

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.

When we walk along the beach and feel the sand beneath our toes and then the surf sends small waves to gently caress our feet

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

To me you were home, to you I was just a vacation.

Unanswered? I would've answered any question, Hannah. But you never asked.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

I think cartoons are important. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

You look back and you always think you can probably do something better.