A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

Your consistency says a lot about your commitment.

It's a funny things about human nature. Nobody ever wonders why they've got a healthy brother or a perfect kiddie. Anything goes wrong, though, we soon start why, oh why...

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Music is love searching for a word.