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Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

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

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 the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

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

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

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

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.

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

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.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.