I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

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.

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

We are capable of learning.

To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.

I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

I took a learjet to cop some lipstick Yeah Imma risk it I'm optimistic

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.