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.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

If only people were trees… I might like them better.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

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.

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.

The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.