An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.