Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

I want to start where language ends.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Feelings harden into beliefs when we allow emotions to become bearers of truth.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

Giving great service requires the right people and the right service tools.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.