One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

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.

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.

The question of sex will take care of itself.