 | "I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty." |
| "I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore." |
| "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 hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move." |
| "It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it." |
| "Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose." |
| "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." |
| "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." |
| "Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint." |
| "Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished." |
| "The days you work are the best days." |
| "To create one's own 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 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." |
| "You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare." |
