My life has been regulated by insomnia.

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.

A person who can not deal with the past of others, can not deal with yours.

In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.