Everything is personal..

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all..

Kerry James Marshall especially was a huge influence on me in graduate school, as were Wangechi Mutu and Julie Mehretu. These artists are titans. My ….

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.….

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of their dysfunction becau….

I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am..

Caricature is rough truth..

My mouth was always my weapon. I've become quieter now. It's possible to put things very clearly, concisely and sharply, even when you do it quietly..

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surround….

It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribu….

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doin….

The only thing that limits you right now is you..

Keep it weird. They'll get it later..

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches..

Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world? That is such a common question the….

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture..

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love..

If you cast your supporting cast well, it should be seamless. You shouldn't even notice who's a big part and who's a small part. A good cast enriches….

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually….

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..

It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God….