It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve..

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage..

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in ….

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interes….

Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous..

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and yo….

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me..

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of th….

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free..

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do..

I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was….

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

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things..

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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty..

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment..

I decided to accept as true my own thinking..

A flower touches everyone's heart..

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays..

Fill a space in a beautiful way..

I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of fe….