If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

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

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 [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

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.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.