I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a museum before. I want also to have enough art r….

Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what ….

I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's li….

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good..

Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create..

Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go..

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty..

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred..

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line..

I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, bu….

Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet th….

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life..

All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing..

I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect peopl….

Beauty is embarrassing for three reasons. When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be i….

You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you becaus….

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still….

People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassing….

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up..

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line..

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into t….