If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

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.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

What can we say with certainty?

I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them