I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

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

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

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

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.