The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Open your wings, fly toward the sky To live in your dream, even if it is high

Devote yourself to prayer.

Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President.

I really don't think that Turkey has become more conservative. It just so happens that the conservatives are a lot more visible today than they were previously.

Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make