One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole.
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.
I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...
I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.
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.
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I’ve always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It’s a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it’s not a pin.
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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.