When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment."

"Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, "Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man?" . . . I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me."

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 don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.