At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

Women should be someone and not something.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?

The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

There is madness in the every heart.

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.