I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

Some things need to be left unsaid.

Into the sky to win or die.

My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs—torn, shredded, and full of gaping holes.

If I could offer only one tool to help you attract more of what you want, it would be what is commonly called NAPS (Night Audio Programs).

Money isn't the only thing that must flow and circulate in order to have good value: good turns and gifts must flow and circulate . . . for any social system to remain in balance.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.