A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use

Since the beginning of time there was always stories like this, ” he replies. “As children we reveled in the dream that there was a place out there that was different from the one we lived in.

...you will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.

People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.