There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

The density of meaning is external and context dependent.

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.