Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

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.

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.

Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein