Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

All art is made from anger.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

Time was made for slaves.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

I was starstruck by Michelle Obama. She's an amazing-looking lady, and I'm a massive Barack Obama fan anyway.

When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.

The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.