David A Sessions, Watercolor on paper, 1983. "I am an absolute believer in history. Art is a record; think of the art germinated from other wars, produced unsolicited, in reaction to the particular skirmish. The art that comes out of Vietnam is unique to that war; it was not produced by war illustrators, but by soldiers. We have acted upon that primal aesthetic urge to make visual commentary on an event that profoundly touched our bodies, hearts, spirits, souls--whatever it is that constitutes the Human Thing and causes it to make art."