It is too pretentious to try to say in words what I am doing in paint. I do not know what I am doing in paint. I can say that, without making a conscious program for it, my painting has developed into large simple designs with a great deal of rather anonymous detail. I feel a deep relationship to my surroundings, and most of my work is born as a result of this feeling.

Painting, like the other arts, is too much talked about, written about, too much revered, too exalted and too irrelevant. A better society might take paintings and artists for granted, just as we take plumbers and teachers and farmers for granted. A painter should paint as a farmer plows his fields… not for glory, or prizes, or to appear in the books, but because this is his function and he can not help painting. - Elmer Schooley