When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!"

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.