All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

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.

Put a girl in moonlightand tell only truthsand every man becomes a poet.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

Living matter is the most powerful geological force.

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.

The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere.