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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it's very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.