I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline in order to achieve a specific objective.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?' 'Look, shut up, people might hear.' 'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?

I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.

Innovation requires articulation.