Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

Fate is written in the face.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.