In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.