A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.
I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.