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

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

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

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

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 want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.