"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at — not just copy it."

"I don't particularly like flowers. I paint them because they are cheaper than models and they don't move."

"I think I have always tried to make the best of what is around me."

"I don't want to be anyone's wife. I want to be myself."

"I often think about the first time I saw the desert. It was like a new world opening up to me."