Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

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.

Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

Hiding here, are you? That’s awkward.” “Why?” “Because I had intended to hide here myself.” “You may hide here with me, if you wish.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

Rule One, boy: shoot first then ask questions Rulw Two, Double tap just for good measure. Better safe then sorry. -Bubba

Glory is the child of peril.

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].