What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

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

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

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.