I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.