I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

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.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.