I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.