"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move." — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

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.

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.