Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.

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

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.