One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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.