You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

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.

You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Not sure if I need a glass of wine or a gun or both.

You are the only one who has to live your life.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.