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

"Men are always trying to make me into a woman. But I don't want to be a woman. I want to be a painter."

"I found that I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for."

"I have always been interested in the quiet. The way it settles over everything."

"I hate flowers. I paint them because they're there."