The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

The road is better than the inn.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.