You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you..

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me..

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it..

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people..

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is..

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist..

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself..

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is….

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Wo….

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it..

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art..

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be p….

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything..

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting wa….

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; th….

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that..

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change..

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by ….

If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world..

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far..

I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most ch….