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.
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I’m one of the best painters.
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
Making your unknown known is the important thing – and keeping the unknown always beyond you – catching – crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life – only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead – that you must always keep working to grasp...
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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.