I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

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.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man it is the Great Wall of China between them!

The image of God is in every human

If your career doesn’t work out, write a book about it.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.