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

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

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

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.

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

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.