“… interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”

“What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”

“All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up!” – New York Times Magazine, August 1992

“Let the atrocious images haunt us. … This is what human beings are capable of doing– may volunteer to do, enthusiastically, self-righteously. Don’t forget.” – Regarding the Pain of Others, 2003