I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

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 + Mesaw this...AMERICAThank you for finding America with me

Well, Faye, dear, I’m sure Harlow’s sorry she didn’t think to ask if you’d been eaten by a shark. That’s totally on her.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.