I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

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

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.