I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

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

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

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