I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

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 make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems

We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, and angrily.

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.