I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.