I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all that could work. It seemed like a great mystery, especially how organelles in the cell can be arranged in three dimensions, and how thousands of proteins could find their way to the right location in the cells.
I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely. . . punishment?
If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
I push myself to be the best I can be. I don't worry about what other people are doing, and I don't think about things I can't control.
Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period, fh). She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.