“We are believers in practice.”

“I’ve never understood catharsis.”

“It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.”

“Museums and galleries kind of train people in passivity.”

“I’m not at all a left-wing melancholic.”

“Lineages that focus only on proper-named artists are not only Eurocentric and masculinist but plain boring.”

“I’m not interested in just looking but in having an experience and then expanding from there.”

“I spent my youth in a world of women who were, and who insisted to be, witnesses to the fate of women.”

“My attention tends to focus on the micro, on what’s right in front of my face—I let associations spiral out from there.”

“I decided to schmear my queer Jewish pinko self in schmaltz and go out and grease up the stage.”

“Things improving for old women artists is like things improving for Black Americans. Things improve. But things stay shitty.”

“My whole struggle was being suspicious of the idea that subjectivity and the creative imagination are what makes art, art.”

“I’ve never been someone who could be influenced very easily.”

“There will be gradual changes in the art world, but the arts are often the last to change.”

“One mantra in particular strikes me in this moment—and it is from John Waters’s Female Trouble—‘crime is beauty.’”

“When living honorably is more important than staying alive, you’re ready to fight effectively for what you believe in.”

“I like a kind of writing that’s irreducible—just itself and nothing else.”

“All my life I’d been having arguments with myself that I couldn’t properly solve within the jurisdiction of myself.”