How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.