Hedda Sterne quotes:

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.