Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

Art can only be taught by artists.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

I love hanging out with friends and family.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

Your dreams may not be happening, and things aren't turning out the way you expected, but that doesn't mean your life is spinning out of control. It just means you're not in control.

You see something you like?

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.