No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I paint life as I would like it to be.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

I just wanted to do something important.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.

It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.