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.

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

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

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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.

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