Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
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- Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
- I hate flowers — I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
- Marks on paper are free — free speech — press — pictures all go together I suppose.
- One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
- When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man’s name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,