“To ask Norma Keating to be anything except Norma Keating would be ridiculous.”

Affirming that an artist must be judged as an individual · Introduction to Giants and Dwarves, 1946

• Art
• Identity

“Frequently she wonders whether good and bad, themselves, are not self-important labels for insecurity, based on over-quick and hard personal judgements and preferences.”

Questioning rigid moral labels and hurried judgement · Introduction to Giants and Dwarves, 1946

• Faith
• Truth

“Among the best of these latter people I have found a genuineness, an unassuming candor, a rough sense of humor, and an inquisitive intelligence.”

Praising unpretentious curiosity and honest human warmth · Letter to Burton Rascoe, New York Tribune, 1922

• Friendship
• Truth