Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.