When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.

Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.

People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly.