When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

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.

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.

If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross and the miracle of the resurrection.