Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Fill a space in a beautiful way.
You are one of my nicest thoughts.
A flower touches everyone's heart.
The days you work are the best days.
Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.
I decided to accept as true my own thinking.
Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.
Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.
It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.
If only people were trees… I might like them better.
I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.
To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.
I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.
There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!
I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.
I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.
My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.
I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.
His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.
I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.
My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.
I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)
