I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

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.

The only way to make your dreams a reality is to live your truth. To embrace your truth, and embrace it with love.

Many people tell me that I should become a politician but I tell them no I want to do something good for the nation.

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.