My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.