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

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.

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.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

I live to love and I love to be happy.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.

For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.