"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 have always been interested in the bones. The way they are put together."

"I am not an intellectual. I am a painter."

"I don't think there's any such thing as a woman artist. There's only artists."

"I wish I could write about it but I can't. I can only paint it."