I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

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.

Communication succeeds when you make others understand you clearly, and they make you understand them clearly.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

the value of a thing is not the thing but what is behind the thing

It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.