If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

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.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too.

USC is the National Champion like Al Gore is the President of the United States.

Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.