My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.
Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
I found I have to stay painting.
I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
I always start a painting with the sky.
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
In art one idea is as good as another.
Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.
