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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
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... →
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.
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.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot... →
The days you work are the best days.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has... →
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above... →
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