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

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.

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.

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

The only difference between a winner and a loser is that one second when the winner decided not to give up.

No demigod can heal your heart."Aphrodite to Reyna, at Charleston

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

Open your heart

I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Peeves do not make very good pets.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.