Inspiration is nothing without work.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

If you can’t find a job, use your special gift to create a job.

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.