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

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.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

You are one of my nicest thoughts.

When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.