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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.