Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Jesus wept, but He never complained.

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.

I've always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that's always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There's no competition.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.