Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

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.

If I could out run the Angel of Death I'd probably die from lack of breath!

What is success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No. Money, for the most part, turns people into jerks.

History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.

Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

I prefer true over happy now.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Every cell in us worships God.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.