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.

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 never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

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.

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

I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.