I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I wanted to work with [Diego] Rivera, which I did, on a mural that he was painting at the time. But at some point I realized that I wasn't going to be a political artist, it just wasn't in my repertoire.

In fact, in the history of a lot of cultures there is a theater. For example, there are the theaters in Java, [Indonesia] and of that area where they use puppets and they have backgrounds and shadows.

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.