To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

When it comes to bullying small businesses, Donald Trump is the poster boy.

For someone like Daniel Radcliffe, it’s really fun to go against your image. He’s such a goody-two-shoes in Harry Potter. I just wanted him to throw off the gloves and be weird and quirky.

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.