You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.

I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

I love that I have a job that I love.

You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.