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Greatness breaks laws.
True strength is delicate.
We must create our own world.
Character is the architect of the being.
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.
I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.
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.
I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.
I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.
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've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.
My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.
The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.
No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.
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 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.
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
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.
There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.
I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.
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.
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.
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.
You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.