Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

Self-love is when you are genuinely happy not with the image you see in the mirror, but the person you see.

Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.