As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

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It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

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The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

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