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.

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.

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

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

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.