Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

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.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Even if you are strange, you may not be able to deny that we all live in the same home that we call Earth. So let us love her.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Our lives change externally as we change internally.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.

Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.