You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.