“My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind...” — Etel Adnan Quote

“My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.”

“Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.”

“Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?”

“I felt a connection to the traditional music in all the pubs in Dublin that we stopped into.”

“I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.”

“If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.”