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An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’tcapabl...more

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I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of my actual mural work in soaking up impressions of ...more

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While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint...more

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Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

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I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already d...more