“The night is never too dark for the ones who look for the stars.”

Be kind enough to not hurt anyone, be strong enough to not hurt yourself.

Sometimes people leave to make us learn how to live.

You are the destiny I am destined to.

Live for sunrises and sunsets for they will give you no stress.

Time is capable of doing it all love, hurt, rise and fall.

The face can lie but the heart can not.

Every fairytale has its own hell but there’s always heaven in the end.

As bright as a sunflower as brave as a warrior.

Love stays young when old souls fall in love.

If beauty can love the beast, imagine what she can conquer.

Even the Moon takes care of you wherever you go, it follows you.

I feel the silence with my chaotic heart.

Grow slowly and silently fly away quietly.

Don’t give up now to later make them wonder how.

Memories are a beautiful place to stay but I never wanted beautiful souls to stay just there.

The sky is blue for most of the day but it never gives up even for a single day.

Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring.

When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of which sat the Duke’s commode. The main hall was mysteriously floor less. Most of the rooms were painted pink.

The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.

That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, ‘We’ll have to take the eye out.’ …I fought like a tiger. I said, ‘No! Leave the eye alone.

On 139 and Lenox Ave there’s a big park, and if you’re soft don’t go through it when it gets dark

You can’t see the glory of life if you haven’t seen the dark side of life.

I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”

I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work.