Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.

When you see disavowal, change it with your hands, if you can’t, change it with your words, and if you can’t as well, change it with your heart.” -131

Go lovingly into each moment and experience your infinite being as you truly are. Feel, learn, play!

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.