Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

All art is made from anger.

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat’s maze poorly.

Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.

Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.