I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.