I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
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.
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.
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.
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...
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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.
The days you work are the best days.
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.
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.
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.