It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

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.

The future is certain. It is just not known.

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !