An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.

The longer you live, the better you get.

Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

Theater helps people keep sane.