It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
I just wanted to do something important.
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.