I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

People are beautiful when they share things.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.

-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

I get more spam than anyone I know.

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.