I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

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.

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.