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.

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

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

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

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

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.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.