Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

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.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you're willing to accept in your career.

Nice! There's no fun in nice. I'll be myself and you'll all love me for it.

Life has been fair, destiny may have staged it well but the timings were terrible.

the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

To be amazing means you have to do amazing things.

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.