We must create our own world.

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

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

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

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.