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.

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.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...

I don't think we can solve the outside problemsuntil we solve the ones within.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates.