If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

If you are born on this planet, we want to make sure you get the kind of education you actually deserve.

When you think you can't revisit a previous triumph.

I resent being lied to because a lie doesn't only undermine the value of the truth, but it further denies the liar a fair chance for honesty.

The silence is becoming more poisonous and I have no one to talk with, not even my own self

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.

Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.