Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.
If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.
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.
Racism is a worldwide problem.
I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith. '