When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.
Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.
Character is the architect of the being.
My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.
I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.
[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.
I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.
I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.
Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise.
I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
