“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions”

“Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”

“I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”

“There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.”

“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.- Must I Paint You a Picture”

“I love libraries. I love books. There is something sacred, I think, about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, the pondering, of men and women of all the ages accumulated together under one roof to which we can have access as our needs require.”