The right use of color can make any composition work.

If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.