In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

When it looks like everyone is against you, look inside for the truth.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."

Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

Start taking your SELF to the next level so you can take your SUCCESS to the next level. It only happens in that order.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.

Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.