"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else."

"I have always been interested in the space between things. The space between colors, the space between forms."

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

"I don't want to be a symbol. I want to be a painter."

"I think it's so foolish for people to want to be painters in this day and age. It's such a dead art."