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

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

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