You sort of fell in love with Jane when you met her. She was exuberant, original, strong-minded and a very kind woman.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

I am consumed by love.

Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.