Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

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

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

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

I paint life as I would like it to be.