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

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.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.