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

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

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

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 have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

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 you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

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 things.

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

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

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

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

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

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.