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

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.

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.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

I have no regrets from my past only pride over how far I have come to be the person I am today and hope that tomorrow I will be even better.

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what's actually over the wall.

Billions of years before I was born I did not need religion, why should I need it, billions of years after I cease to exist

A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.