My life now is quiet and serene....Mostly, though, I work.  In the last five years I've been most productive.  It's as if — and I hate to even think this — now that I'm alone, I can really do it, really achieve.  Strange, isn't it?  But I'm getting along in age, and I won't be able to paint much longer.  Maybe I'm doing all I'm doing because I feel there's not much time left.  I never was a mother, you know, so I never left a string of people.  But I think leaving a string of paintings is not a bad thing to do.

     — from interview with John Gruen, “Among the Sacred Monsters,” ARTnews 87, no. 3 (March 1988), p. 182.