Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

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.

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.

I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever.

say what you mean and mean what you say

Our sufferings produce strength of spirit.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India's economic transformation.