Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.
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.
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
I decided to accept as true my own thinking.
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.