The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

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.