I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

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

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

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

So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.