I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography..

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, mural….

All art is based on non-conformity..

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter..

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with St….

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel..

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward t….

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world..

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal mo….

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far ….

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychol….

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an ar….

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds t….

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just w….

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life..

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to….

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none..

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists..

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder..

Form is the shape of content..

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate..