Art is manipulation without intervention.

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.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

A beaten general is disgraced forever.

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

I'm terrible at heights. I hate it. I'm glad I'm only 5'7".

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.