I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

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.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

I’ve said before, Harry, no need to hide your light, ” said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, “Dance, monkey, dance.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

a real man is happy and eager to live by your rules, as long as he knows what the rules are and he's sure that abiding by those rules will help keep the woman he loves happy