I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.