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

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

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

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.

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

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.