”…In a sense, a painting is a woman’s natural attempt to create an original but coherent mental yet physical interpretation of her own reality, and by extension create a new version of reality for her species. It is as natural for a woman to paint as for the spider to spin her web. The spider has her own kind of confidence, and a different organisation in which she operates. The spider does not wonder” Is my web as beautiful as my neighbour’s, as meaningful? Is it the best web I can construct?” She certainly does not sit brooding and webless as she contemplates the errors she has made….In a way now, the artists hand can be wiser than her questioning mind, certainly if that mind learns to use its’ intellect in too obtrusive a fashion…Your artistic abilities know what they are doing…the artist takes the very qualities of living itself and transforms them into a kind of rarefied aesthetic quality….each vision is unique, so there are no real guidebooks and each artist chooses the ways in which life and art will interrelate so to speak…you cannot put specifications upon [yourself] saying by the age of so and so my art should be thus and so..” Deleted sessions Vol 5, page 267