What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn’t people.

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.

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.

It’s a hell of a thing to be born, and if you’re born you’re at least entitled to your own self.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn’t have what I had. If just didn’t dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there’s nobody on earth that can affect you.

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don’t think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don’t accept that – you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

In my studio I’m as happy as a cow in her stall. That’s the only place where everything is all right.

I’m in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I’m in the process of working.

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.