“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

“I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.”

“A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”