“The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding — to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.”Tagged: Unexplainable, Mystery, Understanding
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.”Tagged: Art, Creativity, expression, explanation
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”Tagged: Flower, beauty, Appreciation, Friendship, Time
“I have been thinking of what you say about form.. .I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown.. ..and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown known. By unknown I mean…”Tagged: Form, Living Form, Experience, Spirit
“I thought you could write something about me that men can't – What I want written – I do not know – I have no definite idea of what it should be. – but a woman who has lived many things and who sees lines and colors as an expression of living – might say something that a man can't – I feel there is…”Tagged: Writing, Ideas, expression, Art, Exploring
“I am on the train going back to Stieglitz – and in a hurry to get there – I have had four months west and it seems to be all that I needed – It has been like the wind and the sun – there doesn't seem to have been a crack of the waking day or night that wasn’t full – I haven't gained an ounce in…”Tagged: vacation, trip, alive
“I hate flowers — I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move!”Tagged: Flowers, model, Art, Creativity, Painting
“I'm getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me.”Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, Fall in love, Falling In Love
“I’m getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me.”Tagged: Falling In Love, Fear And Love, romance, Relationship, Commitment
“Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my effort to create an equivalent with paint color for the world – life as I see it.”Tagged: Color, Life, Painting, World, beauty
“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”Tagged: Memory, First Memory, Light, Brightness
“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”Tagged: Things, Thoughts, Knowledge, Absurd, unique
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”Tagged: Birth, Life, Importance, accomplishment, Interest
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.”Tagged: Color, Shapes, Art, beauty, Creativity
“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”Tagged: Happiness, Momentary, Interest
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”Tagged: Success, unknown, keeping the unknown
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”Tagged: Flower, beauty, Appreciation, World