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

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

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

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.