The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

Compelled respect always implies fear.

It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

Different hearts beat on different strings

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.