My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

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.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

Hillary Clinton doesn't know anything about my policy. I mean, she wouldn't know anything about it.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.

The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.