To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

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.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Why don't you pair'em up in threes?