It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.

Your self-talk creates your reality.

God is our great helper.

If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so.

I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start writing to do canvases. I started writing to bomb... destroy all lines.