I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

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.

Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.

Peace can't be seen with eyes, only the mind can see it and the heart can feel it. So open the window of your mind to let it come in.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

There is one grace you cannot counterfeit . . . the grace of perseverance.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.