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.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

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.

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

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.

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.