The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you didn’t stop just because the way was hard, rather you found solutions to problems

I was a vacant room. Inside, the music produces only a dry, hollow echo.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself.

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.