You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.