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

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

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.

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

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

That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too