“Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.”

“It is important for women to do something about what they see.”

“Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.”

“Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”