I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

I want to start where language ends.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

You photograph with all your ideology.

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

The path is revealed in the treading.