I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.
I have a very small team by choice, because I don't believe in teams of 55,000 people.