I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.

Not all men rape. Some molest and others observe!

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

The sun's not yellow, its chicken!

The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

It's your life; live it well.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?