My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.