I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.

I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.

not fare well, but fare forward

Who mocks at music mocks at love.