A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.

Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda.

The Bible is not a tested hypothesis, it is not a theory but it is God's Breath.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.