I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!
My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative. . . I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor.
We have the loveliest women in the world in this county and wherever there are beautiful women there will be beautiful clothes. To show the American woman herself off to best advantage-that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.