It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.