The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

The source of my suffering and loneliness is deep in my heart. This is a disease no doctor can cure. Only Union with the Friend can cure it.

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

An armed society is a polite society.

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.