I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.