“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

“Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

“Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.”

“I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.”

“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”