To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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.
I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.
And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.