Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. 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.

If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.