Since I cannot sing, I paint.

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

I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

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.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

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've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.