Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

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.

Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.

SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.