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

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

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.