Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.