The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.

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.

There is no wall strong enough that love and kindness can't reach through.

Be careful that the cost of weighing the purchase of an object does not exceed its intrinsic value.

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

The best part about golf is when you hit the ball long. It feels really good.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

I've always been interested in UFOs.

I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.