The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.