If you can't handle a gun properly, hang it up over the fireplace empty.

I was so accustomed to playing cowboys I wasn't sure I could portray an educated doctor.

It's harder and more sporting to hunt turkey with a shotgun, because it is difficult to get next to them with a scattergun.

I don't go with the old saw about not keeping a loaded gun around. But I do say, treat every gun as if it was loaded.

I don't like working for directors that the second you're in a rehearsal they start telling you what to do - 'Don't do this, do that, do that' - without at least giving you a chance to show what you've brought to the plate.

I love Georgia - it's one of my favorite states.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.