Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

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.

Don’t wait for passion to arrive before taking action

A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

A light here required a shadow there.