Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

A flower touches everyone's heart.

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

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

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

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.

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