I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.

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.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.