I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

Greatness breaks laws.

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

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

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.