I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.

Hold yourself in great esteem.

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.