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

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.

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.

The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.

Not everything we experience can be explained by logic or science.

Always think about loyal not for beautiful, about true not for rich, because if you have your loyal and true, you have your beautiful and rich

I loved you when I was eight. I loved you when I was twelve. I loved you when I was twenty, and I... I love you now.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

Believe in love at first sight.

Good people always rise to your level of expectation.

Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.