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

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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.

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.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.