The story is the first thing and the last thing.

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 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.

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

A flower won't open if I yell at it and say “Bloom!

I think animal crackers make people think that all animals taste the same.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.