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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.