I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

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.

Faith is the ability to endure.

It's your life and no one else cares as much about it as you should.

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

I adore dogs to the extent I think they are much more important than human beings. I like your dog much more than I like you.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot.

I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.