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.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.

Kill them with success, and bury them with a smile

Burning her husband's bed was a mistake. Alison could see that now.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Society's the mother of convention.

All pride is willing pride.