“And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists…” — Robert Rauschenberg

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.