I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

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