I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.

I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.

I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.

I feel like the places where I like to live, or study, or visit are places where people's differences are celebrated rather than just tolerated.

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!