"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 often think old women are very beautiful, but they do not know it."

"I don't want to live in a world where I have to be careful about what I say or do."

"I don't like to be told what to do."

"I hate flowers. I paint them because they're there."