I think women are excellent social critics.

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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third...

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third...

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force....

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force....

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It...

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It...

I hate zoos.

I'm a real workaholic.

I'm a real workaholic.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using...

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using...

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon...

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon...

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that...

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that...

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a...

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a...

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for...

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for...

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the...

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the...

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and...

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and...

There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a...

There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them...

[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them...