I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

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 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.

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

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.