Fill a space in a beautiful way.

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

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

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

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.

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.