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" I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun. "

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" I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. "

" I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. "

" I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. "

" I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context. "

" All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. "

" It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. "

" Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist. "

" Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. "

" I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space. "

" Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. "

" I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. "

" I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. "

" Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. "

" What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. "

" I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level. "

" I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like. "

" I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. "

" I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. "

" Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity. "

" The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film. "

" I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. "

" If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. "

" I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. "

" Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. "