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.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

A flower touches everyone's heart.