Rita Angus

"I haven't any desire for success or the limelight, and no further wish to explain myself. Neither do I wish to play, any more than I can help, a part in the world of petty tyranny, greed and murder, and war ... My pacifism and my paintings are now closely linked."

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

"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, peace or war ..."

"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."

"I paint colour as a woman sees and hears..."