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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
My life has been regulated by insomnia.
Art is manipulation without intervention.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.
I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.
I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.
For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
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.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.
My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
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.
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
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.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.
Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.