Frederick Remington

I have tried to paint the West with all its glory and all its tragedy.

The horse is a partner, a friend, a lifesaver in the West.

I am a chronicler of a bygone era, a witness to history.

The West is a land of dreams, and of the harsh awakening.

I have tried to paint the West as it truly was, not as a romanticized ideal.

The cowboy is a symbol of rugged individualism and self-reliance.

The West is a land of silence, broken only by the wind and the cry of a hawk.

I have tried to paint the West with a sense of urgency, before it disappears.

The horse is an extension of the cowboy, a part of his very being.

I am a painter of the American frontier, a recorder of its passing.

The West is a land of raw power, and of untamed beauty.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

I knew the wild riders and the wild country, I wanted to startle the world.

Doing justice to the cowboy and the Indian is my ambition.

The West is dead, but its spirit lives on in my work.

Art is the great equalizer; it speaks to all men.

In the saddle, a man finds his true self.

The bronco is the soul of the plains.

I paint what I see, not what I imagine.

The frontier is gone, but memory endures.