It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.