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 found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

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.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.