I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.

I hate people. People make me pro-nuclear.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.