If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it..

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn..

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like….

The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also….

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are….

I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but o….

I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left..

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell….

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible..

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris..

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite..

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 ban….

If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself..

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking h….

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 an….

I just wanted to do something important..

I'm tired, but proud..

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich..

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker..

I'm the oldest antique in town..