Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.

Baptists burn more slowly.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.

Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.