Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.

I make time for joy every day.

When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Somebody stop the world. I'm scared and I want to get off.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?""Because they're real.""How do you know?""The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have