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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.