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

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.

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

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.