Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

True strength is delicate.

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.