To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

Someday you won't ever be seen again, but until then, make everyday an adventure.

At one time it really felt like forever might happen for us.

Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

You're beautiful, Roza. So beautiful it hurts me.