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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.