In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

We must create our own world.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.