If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor...When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.

It’s about finding your own twisted perfection, letting yourself fall too far andtaking a chance. If you’ve done all that. You have no reason to give up. Not now.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.