I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.

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

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

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.

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.