Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.

I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.