In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.
Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.
I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.
A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.
You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.
I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.
I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.
I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.
There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.
In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.
I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.
I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
