If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Hatred is love frustrated.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

When your art fails, make better art.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.