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

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

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

It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.