The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.
In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.
Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.
I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
