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.

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

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

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.