In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

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

True strength is delicate.

Character is the architect of the being.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

We must create our own world.