Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source: posthumous, Movements in art since 1945, p. 15: (in Gorky Memorial Exhibition, Schwabacher pp. 12)
As quoted in The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962) by Katharine Kuh, p. 119
1960s
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
“If I am lucky, the picture will paint itself”
Quoted in Insights by Liz rideal, National Portrait Gallery, London 2005 ISBN 1855143631
“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”
Source: CAT'S EYE.
“I am not an artist just someone who paints.”
Interview tapes Cotton & Mullineux
“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
Quoted from: Antonio Rodríguez, "Una pintora extraordinaria," Así (17 March 1945)
1925 - 1945
Variant: I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
“I have to chuckle sometimes when I am painted as "hard-nosed."”
In truth, our Justice Department wasn't nearly as aggressive as Roosevelt's. And our respect for civil liberties was far more extensive than the response following Pearl Harbor. Yes, we were tough, but we always operated within the law; it was never our policy or practice to detain any noncombatant without charges. In our conduct, we never approached the limits of the law as closely as Roosevelt did.
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 178-179
