"I wanted to paint the unpaintable."

"I have always been interested in the strength. The way it endures."

"Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven't time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."

"The men liked to make me into a pretty little thing. I didn't want to be a pretty little thing."

"The unencumbered woman, alone in the landscape, is a very strong image."