I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

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.

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

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.