Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

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.

I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.

When you carry a frown you will see more frowns

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.

As far as the path of [Bill] Goldberg and all his ultimate success, I don't think any of that was planned. It was all organic. All of it was so different.

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.