"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

"I wish people would not try to find out what I had to eat, or what I wear, or what I think about when I am not working."

"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."

"I have always been interested in the starkness. The way it reveals the essence."

"The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters."