Every canvas is a journey all its own.

In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

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

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.

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

The question of sex will take care of itself.