I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed..

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national cultur….

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that se….

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exo….

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity..

I've always been very tied to language..

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words..

Love is something you fall into..

As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment nev….

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not..

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives..

I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe n….

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice..

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and night….

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor..

The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is al….

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean..

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements..

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype..

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological fr….

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF..