Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

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.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.

"Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one."

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.