One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.