If A Picture Wasn't Going Very Well,

I Talk As I Sketch, Too, In Order To Keep Their Minds Off What I'm Doing So I'll Get The Most Natural Expression I Can From Them. Also, The Talking Helps To Size Up The Subject's Personality, So I Can Figure Out Better How To Portray Him.

Everyone In Those Days Expected That Art Students Were Wild, Licentious Characters. We Didn't Know How To Be, But We Sure Were Anxious To Learn.

The View Of Life I Communicate In My Pictures Excludes The Sordid And Ugly. I Paint Life As I Would Like It To Be.

I Paint Life As I Would Like It To Be.

Without Thinking Too Much About It In Specific Terms, I Was Showing The America I Knew And Observed To Others Who Might Not Have Noticed. My Fundamental Purpose Is To Interpret The Typical American. I Am A Story Teller.