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 found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me ... shapes and ideas so near to me ... so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
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 said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
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.
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.
My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows ...
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