I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

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.

You can understand my inner reactionsmore clearly than me because you can see me as a whole.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Intending to run ahead of everyone is not an obstacle to fall behind. Streets are full of liars.

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

Cricket was my reason for living.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.