Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

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.

Prayer is humbly longing to know the Father’s will.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

As many servants so many enemies.