I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results.

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be rewoven.

You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.

He was the wolf, and she was the rational hare, forgiving and accepting him as he was.

Look at it this way – a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don’t do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

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.

My knives are like a tongue – I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

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.