Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

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.

Socialism is not panacea and capitalism is not entirely evil.

You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself in ways that mirror the best of who we are.

I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.