What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.

A good book is a good place to go..... to dream!

When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

I'd be dishonoring God if I didn't believe I was put here on Earth to help change the world.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.