I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.

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.

I am grateful for all the goodness in my life. I think life for bringing me so much joy.

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.

I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.