"There was in the air the glamor of a battle, the holy battle raging for the assertion of a new truth. My youth plunge…"

"I was thrilled to find America so rich with so many new motives to be translated into a new art. Steel and electricit…"

"To realize this towering imperative vision in all its integral possibilities... I lived days of anxiety, torture, and…"

"During the last years of the war I went to live in BROOKLYN in the most forlorn region of the oceanic tragic city, in…"

"Opposite my studio a huge factory — its black walls scarred with red stigmas of mysterious battles — was towering wit…"

"Many nights I stood on the bridge — and in the middle alone — lost — a defenseless prey to the surrounding swarming d…"

"To Joseph Stella and other progressive artists of the early twentieth century, the timeworn conventions of European p…"

"All the thought which in the course of my studies I have been able to give to the subject has led me to conclude that…"

"I’m in a position where I don’t have to be labeled… I don’t have to call myself an Indian artist to sell my work, and…"

"I liked the way they looked. They were easy to work with my hands. The drawings turned into these magical things."