I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.

Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.Remember this.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

I don't seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take a picture and it's in.

I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.