 |
Success is a great deodorant. -Elizabeth Taylor |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what...
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every toolshop of my mind, and with long searching and hard...
I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it -- how good or...
I don't much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...
[Sun-bleached bones] were most wonderful against the blue -- that blue that will always be there as it is now after...
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like...
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
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...
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...
I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its...
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time -- like to have a friend takes...
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think...
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with...
When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given...
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.