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

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

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

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.