It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
The days you work are the best days.
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.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
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.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look...
My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.