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

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

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

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.

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.