Richard McKenna Quotes & Sayings

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

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people. — Richard McKenna

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

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

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

Being dead is being weak and walled off. — Richard McKenna