There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

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.

...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.