I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

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 has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.