One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

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.

Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance.

Smile because it's infectious.Love because it's contagious.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

I just want to express a generalized and endless feeling of love inside of me directed at every single person who exists or will ever exist.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.