Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

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.

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

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

Character is the architect of the being.

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

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