I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

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

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

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.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.