Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.