[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.

…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.