An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

Relish what is good and expedient.

If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same.

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.