There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

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

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

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.

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

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.