It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

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.

To touch everyone’s heart, let us all sing a song of peace.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.