I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again
I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art. . . that people actually paid for it.
As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.
Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.
I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.
I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art. . . that people actually paid for it. . . I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.
Main Street, U. S. A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.
If we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaida. That's what I've gotta keep my eye on.
I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.
I'm grateful I got the opportunity to do it because I know this now. If anybody ever asked me to do a daytime show again I would go no, no. I can't do that. Not because it's beneath me. It's above me. It's beyond my resources.