Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.