You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.
Don't waste your youth growing up.
In the end there is only Matisse.
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.