I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One works without thinking how to work.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Policymakers cannot take the situation lightly, for at its worst, it speaks to “intergenerational inequity” – a breaking of the social contract between two generations.

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

I'm one that likes to collaborate. I love feeding off the creative energy, and it only makes me better.

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.