I've always been very tied to language.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.

People start to believe in a given technology when they start to see it around themselves

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.