Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

The heart is the secret inside the secret.

It’s like once everyone decides who you are, you’re locked into their version of you and that’s it.