I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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.

You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.

If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

I blast "Northern Sky," by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out.

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

Find a way to express what moves you.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done