If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

Women should be someone and not something.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

Only those who are eager to get lost in the wilderness of life’s beauty can find a meaningful life.

God is spirit and in order to do works on earth, He needs a man, who has a spirit and a body

Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I'm desperately wishes...

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.