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 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.

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.

The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

God is faithful even when his children are not.

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

Of course I have a personal life.

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

I never eat before breakfast.