The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

When Jesus enters a country the fire of revival starts burning there

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.

There's no time for boys in my life right now.

At least if I keep my love a secret, he and I can still have this wonderful, odd, exciting relationship where I love him in silence and pretend he's loving me in silence too.

You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.