Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

Life is what you make it.