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

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

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.

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

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

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

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.