Character is the architect of the being.

Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

Character is the architect of the being.

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.