An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

I meddled in things that man must leave alone

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.