“She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical presence.”

“A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.”

“The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.”

“The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.”

“Thy will be done. I yield up everything.'The life is more than meat' -- then more than health;'The body more than raiment' -- then more than wealth;The hairs I made not, thou art numbering.Thou art my life--I the brook, thou the spring.Because thine eyes are open, I can see;Because thou art thyself, 'tis therefore I am me.”

“There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.”