I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.