Art helped give me confidence.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

I write, but I also act.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

If your husband has difficulty getting to sleep, the words 'we need to talk about our relationship' may help.

I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.