Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.