I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.

When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

In the mind of the kid in skinny jeans leading the worship band, there isn’t a large enough gap between holiness and sinfulness, truth and error, demons and angels, or heaven and hell.

Social media allows you to network, collaborate, and share your work with others. Building a solid network via social is the most valuable thing you can do for your business or personal brand.

A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.

We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.