I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.