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

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.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.

You are one of my nicest thoughts.

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.

My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.