I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.