My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

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

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

I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.