The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

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.

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

New things are always better than old things.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.

Some persons think they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

The security challenge is related to the progress and advance we make in the political process.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.