Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

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• Niki de St. Phalle:

  Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, hi

• Niki de St. Phalle:

  I could do whatever I wanted, whether people liked it or not.

• Niki de St. Phalle:

  Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.

• Niki de St. Phalle:

  I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.

• Niki de St. Phalle:

  It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.

• Niki de St. Phalle:

  The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disas

• Niki de St. Phalle:

  AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

• Niki de St. Phalle:

  Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

• Niki de St. Phalle:

  With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything.

• Gutzon Borglum:

  There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves.