I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Things have happened, having to do with many things including political correctness, where people are so worried about being politically correct that they are unable to function.

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.