I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

Temptation can sway even the purest mind to sin, and the denialist to claim that tomorrow will bring change. However, the irrefutable truth is—tomorrow, my friend, never comes.

Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?

Capital T truth is dead.

Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for