Richard McKenna Quotes

My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

Richard McKenna

• Thinking
• Learning
• Charm

Being dead is being weak and walled off.

Richard McKenna

• Weak

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

Richard McKenna

• Book
• Dies

The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.

Richard McKenna

• Machines
• Granted

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

Richard McKenna

• Responsibility
• Products