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.
I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
I paint flowers so they will not die.
As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.
Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
Women artists are still treated differently from men.
To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions.
There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.
I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
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