I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

My feet, " said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness.

Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.

Only you are yours.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

A black belt is a white belt who never quits!