Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

Nothing is more important than you, so don't fear or feel stress, whatever you do.

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

Dream a little dream, Or you can live a little dream I'd rather live it 'Cause dreamers always chase But never get it

I've been craving peanut butter-and-mayonnaise fried cheese sandwiches.

I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.

If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.