A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple..

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike..

the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live….

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in lan….

My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my hori….

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages..

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it..

The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but….

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains..

It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a….

I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davi….

They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have beg….

I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless with words. I feel as if I hav….

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to have two colors in right relation to each other than to have a vast confusion of emotional exubera….

I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The great secret.. .. is never to get….

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible….

Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Grec….

My work embodies little visions of the great intangible. ... Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of….

All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive sym….

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment..

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul..