My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

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.

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.