It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

If only people were trees… I might like them better.

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.