When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

It would be a remarkable life, if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not have much to live

The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.