I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.