Frederick Remington

I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and I saw an opportunity to make a historical record.

My pictures are not illustrations, they are records.

The West is no longer the West. It is a tame, dull, uninteresting place.

I am not a painter, I am a chronicler.

There is nothing in the world so beautiful as a horse.

The only thing that counts is the truth, and the truth is hard to get.

I have tried to paint the things I have seen, and to paint them as I have seen them.

The West is a big place, and it takes a big man to understand it.

I am trying to make a record of a vanishing type.

The cowboy is the most picturesque figure in our American life.

I am not an artist, I am a reporter.

The West is a land of contrasts, of beauty and brutality.

I have seen the West, and I have loved it.

The horse is the noblest of all animals.

I am trying to paint the truth, and the truth is often ugly.

The West is a land of dreams, and of broken dreams.

I have tried to be honest in my work, and to tell the truth as I see it.

The cowboy is a vanishing type, and I am trying to preserve him.

The West is a land of freedom, and of loneliness.

I have tried to paint the spirit of the West, not just the facts.