Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

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.

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

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.

Emergent behaviors rely on computational geometry and scale.

Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!

I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we’ll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect.

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.