I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

Because I'm always working on something, I'm always thinking.

It's not what you do, but what you appear to do.

This one sank deep into her marrow and made her heart soar like the shuttles piercing the stratosphere.

Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can’t see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can’t manage them.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.