In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses..

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too..

It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life..

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself..

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24..

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever..

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world..

The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life..

I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage..

My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together..

I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides ….

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being her….

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my ….

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional….

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of charact….

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual wo….

It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in mus….

My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolutio….

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change..

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what ….

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes..