“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”

“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“The days you work are the best days.”

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”

“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”

“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

“To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”