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.
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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.