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

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

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'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

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

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

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