The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

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.

Keep hope alive to be happy.

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .

I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

You might be a redneck if you go Christmas shopping for your mom, sister, and girlfriend, and you only need to buy one gift.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

God leads every soul by a separate path.

I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.