I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

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

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

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 often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.