"The art audience is very receptive to what I do. It's a mutual influence."

"I take the position that I do not ask anyone else to do what I myself would not do and using myself as subject . . . …"

"I was always discouraged,” she says. “Even when I had a fellowship for painting, some of my teachers were very hostil…"

"The female nude is part of a revered tradition, although she is not to take authority over depictions of her nudity. …"

"I never thought I was shocking,” she says. “I say this all the time and it sounds disingenuous, but I always thought,…"