I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.