It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

I don't think anyone is free

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

Nana always said the rain was Nature's way of adding sparkle to the outdoors.

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

August is a wicked month.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.