 I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. |
| I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. |
| I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint. |
| I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. |
| It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. |
| Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country. |
| You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. |
| 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 found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. |
| Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. |
| It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased. |
| I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. |
| One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. |
| I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. |
| I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know. |
| The days you work are the best days. |
| When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. |
| I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. |
| To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. |
