My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.