“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I thin...” — Robert Rauschenberg Quote

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.

I was bullied in every way imaginable, but the worst was the verbal abuse. (I was always a strong, tough and tall girl, so nobody wanted to mess with me from a physical standpoint). It hit rock bottom when I was in seventh grade.

I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.