I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.