"[Asked: "Is that one of the reasons you went into sculpture?"] I don't know how I got into sculpture. I liked its physicality, that's the only reason. I didn't have a program."

"Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces."

"Realism was the death of art."

"Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it."

"This man has one dominating idea..to fill space in a beautiful way."

"Ten Practical Experiments"

"Great art should come from the harmony of two lines."

"..art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies."

"In the heart's album there are treasured faces, Our household darlings, friends which are our own; And with them favorite haunts and cherished places, So dear, they seem but made for us alone."

"Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris."

"I received a draft of a beautiful Tree penciled on a large sheet of white paper bearing ripe fruit I saw it plainly it looked very singular and curious to me. I have since learned that this tree grows in the Spirit Land. Afterwards the spirit showed me plainly the branches, leaves, and fruit presented or drawn upon paper. The leaves were checked or (unreadable) and the same color you see here. I entreated Mother Ann to tell me the name of this tree which she did Oct 1st 4th hour PM by moving the hand of a medium to write twice over Your Tree is the Tree of Life."

"My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date."

"I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?"