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

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

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.

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

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 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.