As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

Spring gives hope that God believes in second chances.

My feet, " said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

A good beginning makes a good end.

I like to have sleepovers.

I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.