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.
We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.
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.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
