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.

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

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.

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

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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