Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.

Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right.

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

Never point at anything beige and call it cool.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.