I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

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.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

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

My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.