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

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

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

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.