It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.

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.

Luck of money is never poverty.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

Money demoralizes even the giver.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.