If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

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.

Don't let the opportunity pass you by. Act! Do something now. Some chances never come again. Seize the moment. Seize the day! Live to the fullest. Live to YOUR fullest potential.

Travelling on the known path is intelligence

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.