Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

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.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

I usually keep a bottle of whiskey. I'm not a big drinker, but I feel like it's important to have.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.