Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

We see things the way we are, not the way they are.

Great repressions create dualities.

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

People living deeply have no fear of death.