You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

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 tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.

The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender.

We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.

I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.