My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

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

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!

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

I paint life as I would like it to be.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

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