I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.

I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.

I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.