I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.