God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.
It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.