I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

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.

Everyone of us has that moment in our life, when you wanted to say NO but say YES even when you know it’s not going in your favor.

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.