I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.