Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth called time.

This Christmas may you courageously venture - toward each new and unfolding horizon.

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.

I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.