When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.
True strength is delicate.
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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.
No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.
We must create our own world.
I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.
You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.
I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.
Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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.
Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.
I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.
Greatness breaks laws.
