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.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

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.