Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

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.

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

No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.

We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

Christians should seek the best information available about the earth over which we have been appointed stewards.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.