I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.
If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.
I paint life as I would like it to be.
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.
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.
A real man's weapon is his mind.
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.