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.

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.

Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.

Action is king, but wisdom is queen.

Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas.

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.