When I graduated from high school, this is in Los Angeles, I was very interested in taking a trip to Mexico to see the archeological sites. So three other people and myself drove down there.

I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.

I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

Mexico doesn't seem alien to Californians.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Being the first is old media, while being to the point is new media. And Twitter never forgets.

I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.