I Participated In The Transformation Of My

Decadence Attracts Me. It Suggests A New World, And, For Me, Society's Struggle Between Life And Death Is Absolutely Beautiful.

Isn't Elegance Forgetting What One Is Wearing?

What Is Wonderful About My Art Is That Dream And Reality Can Become One. There Is Just One Step Between The Two.

I Pass For A Hypersensitive, Reclusive Neurotic, Which I May Well Be, But I Hope The Year Won't Come When My Anxieties And Fatigue Will Destroy My Love Of This Life, Of All The Things That Inspire Me--a Line Of Music, A Face In A Vermeer Portrait, A Character In An Opera, Or A Model Born In Harlem.

I Love Black Because It Affirms, Designs And Styles. A Woman In A Black Dress Is A Pencil Stroke.