Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

the purpose of life is the life of purpose

The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.