A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is. . . unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.
The king is gone but he's not forgotten
You're entitled in this country to worship as you please or to not worship. It's one of the great things that defines us as a nation, and it's at the heart of what it is to be in America.
I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.