An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?”I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.”“Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended.“Prove me wrong.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.

Once you have a history together, it's just another love for life. Everything is easier. It is just easier to live.

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock.

I like guts in my leaders.