I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

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.

For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt

If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

I'm flattered that women think that I'm sexy.

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.