We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.