Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.

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 story is the first thing and the last thing.

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 cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

When I find a fashion formula I love, I tend to stick to it. There's nothing wrong with wearing a look over and over again, if it suits you and makes you feel great.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.