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.

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.

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.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

Emotions can lead you to culmination of success sometimes it leads you to nadir of failure

Life should be simple and easy. If you're doing it hard, you're doing it wrong.

We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the otherside of unsanctified mercy.

I want to know all Gods thoughts all the rest are just details.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.