I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it’s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don’t like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

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

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.

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.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.