I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.

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.

Your attitude reflects your inner feelings.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

Don’t get shitty when I treat you as you are, a casual acquaintance

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.