Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

Being ninty nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.

When our feet talk to us, we listen.

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.