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

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

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.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

Since I cannot sing, I paint.