It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

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

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.

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.

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

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.