I wanted to build up a name for myself.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Every single line means something.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever...

We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.

I got sick of the dough and thought I'd go on the loaf.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

She is mine, and I am hers.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.