[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.

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

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

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

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.