For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.