I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

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.

Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.

Your life may not be 'picture perfect' but you have it in you to make it 'your best.' There's only one chance at life and you owe it to yourself to give it all you can.

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

It's the moment you think you can't, that you can

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

We are not endeavoring to get ahead of others, but to surpass ourselves.

My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.