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

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

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