"My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.. ..Some will say he’s gone mad – others will look and say he…"

"[I was] happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. .. rendering the God-spirit…"

"I believe until a man has given up himself he has given up nothing - all his knowledge of accepted aesthetics are of …"

"..[Picasso had] a depth of understanding and insight into the inwardness of things.. ..doing very exceptional things …"

"..by getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. .. we would be …"

"I could never be French, I could never become German – I shall always remain American – the essence which is in me is…"

"What I have to express is not handled with words. It must 'come' tot the observer. It must carry its influence over t…"

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

"Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (Aix-en-Provence where Paul Cézanne frequentl…"

"I am not a 'book of the month' artist, and I do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will …"