“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

“Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”

“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.”

“In order to fly, you have to let go of the world you’re hanging on to.”