"I don't particularly like flowers. I paint them because they are cheaper than models and they don't move."

"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."

"I have always been interested in the colors of the desert. They are so subtle and yet so intense."

"I often think I was born too late. I should have been born in the wild west."

"I have always been interested in the starkness. The way it reveals the essence."