Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women - women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in - older women and younger men.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.