To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.