"I have always been interested in the silence. The way it speaks."

"Singing has always seemed to me a very foolish thing to do. I like to keep my mouth shut."

"I didn't have time to be a wife. I was too busy being an artist."

"I found that I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for."

"I sometimes think I'm half mad with the desire for something I don't possess."