I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian...

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted...

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of...

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.