An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.