I Don't Resent Being A Female Painter.

I Have Always Been Concerned With Painting That Simultaneously Insists On A Flat Surface And Then Denies It.

There Are No Rules. That Is How Art Is Born, How Breakthroughs Happen. Go Against The Rules Or Ignore The Rules. That Is What Invention Is About.

Every So Often Every Artist Feels, 'i'll Never Paint Again. The Muse Has Gone Out The Window.' In 1985, I Hardly Painted At All For Three Months, And It Was Agonizing. I Looked At Reproductions. I Stared At Matisse. I Stared At The Old Masters. I Stared At The Quattrocento. And I Thought To Myself - Don't Push It! If You Try Too Hard To Get At Something, You Almost Push It Away.

The Question Of Sex Will Take Care Of Itself.

I Don't Start With A Color Order, But Find The Colors As I Go.