A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

Adventures make one late for supper.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

I may not be perfect, but i'm always me

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.