I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.
in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.
Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.