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

I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

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