It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

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.

Silence is so freaking loud

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

[Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done.

Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

But it is pretty to see what money will do.