Women should be someone and not something.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

Pity enlarges the heart.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.

May I so boldly suggest that this Thanksgiving, we focus on one-on-one conversations, instead of broadcasting our lives to the masses.