When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.
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.
A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.
I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?
So 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 the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.
Before I put 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.
A flower touches everyone's heart.
Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.
I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.
The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
Dearest - my body is simply crazy with wanting you - If you don't come tomorrow - I don't see how I can wait for you - I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours - the kisses - the hotness - the wetness - all melting together - the being held so tight that it hurts - the strangle and the struggle.
I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth.
Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.
The days you work are the best days.
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.
You are one of my nicest thoughts.
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