I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.

I love flying buttresses!

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.