My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

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.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

You get tons of phytonutrients and antioxidants from plant-based foods, very little saturated fat, and you avoid cholesterol entirely!

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.