It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

- Morris Graves

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner ey…

- Morris Graves

It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increas…

- Morris Graves

I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often…

- Morris Graves

It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to…

- Morris Graves

An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching percept…

- Morris Graves

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

- Morris Graves

You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; st…

- Morris Graves

The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and na…

- Morris Graves