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

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.