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.

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

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.

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.