I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.

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.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves… then are surprised when they are alone.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.