It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.

Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Failures are the stepping stones to success.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.