Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

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.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.