If you think your picture needs something, take something out.

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.

You are either growing up or going down

Parents are the most precious gift given by the god. We should take care of it.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

Proper prospecting prevents poverty.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.