I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

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.

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.

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

I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.

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