Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

If only people were trees… I might like them better.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

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.

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

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.