To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

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.

Question everything and start from yourself.

Her eyes are brown like the morning sand breaking in a new day.

To love others, first find that sense of connection within yourself. In other words, love yourself first. that's when you will learn to love life.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set on the contrary he who imitates what is good always falls short.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.

Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.