We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.