I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

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

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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.