"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 wish people were more interested in what I do than in what I am."

"I have been so much better at painting than I have been at living."

"I have lived a very long time, and I have seen many things."

"Men are always trying to make me into a woman. But I don't want to be a woman. I want to be a painter."