Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

Because human nature never changes.

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.

Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on.

I've always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism