I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

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.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.