The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

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

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.