Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.

The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.

The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.

The longer they hang out, the deeper the history, the richer the life. If you use that as a template or as a way of realizing things, then I don't think you can go wrong.

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.

That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose.

If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Summoned or not, the god will come.

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

I hear that in my head all the time now: 'Why don't you go and see?'.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.