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

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.

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!

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.

I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.

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

I paint life as I would like it to be.