"I haven't any desire for success or the limelight, and no further wish to explain myself. Neither do I wish to play, …"

"I live alone to work ... My friends are very few now, but more quality. Friends, family and works of art are the only…"

"It's all there, the strangeness, colour, exhilaration."

"I've tried through the medium of paint to express ... how simple and wonderful living is ..."

"I have been able to devote my energies to what I really am, a woman painter. It is my life."

"I have never lost my faith in my painting, my work, as a child or an adult, in sickness or health, success or failure…"

"I am still trying to express ... the vast variations & endless possibilities in paint."

"I, as other painters do, live to paint and paint to live."

"To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who…"

"is the only element, besides birds and human beings, which brings life and movement into the garden, while an expanse…"