Make the best of an emergency.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up.

At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.

I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.

People don't want to be sold! People want to buy!

While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.