If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.