"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."

"This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave."

"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit."

"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."

"I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend."

"I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective."

"I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals."

"The key to change... is to let go of fear."