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.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

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

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.