The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.

My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

Take a moment to think... See - logically.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

Human beings create more than they destroy.

Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.