Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its executio….

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was go….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

Form is the shape of content..

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….

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

All art is based on non-conformity..

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

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

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 ….

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….