I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Women should be someone and not something.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

Love and gratitude offers courage.

She began sobbing again. “I’m not ready to die.

Death is not a choice, even for the suicide.

It feels really great to be popular.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.