I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

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.

Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.

Philosophy may not follow any laws but it always follows our perceptions.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.

What was particularly impressive by the [Donald] Trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the WikiLeaks stuff.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.