The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

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.

Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life.

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

Either things grow and change or they die.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.

'F - k you' is not really the best way to articulate how you feel.