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

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

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

I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

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?