I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

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!

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 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.

People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

That which He has not assumed He has not healed.

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

The whole point of interior design is about creating environments where people can really live their lives and where you can connect with your friends and family.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.