The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.

At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.

Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups

I just need to figure out how things work.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

Dancing - that's really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That's my partying.