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I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

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I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

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Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.