It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

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.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

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

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.