Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.

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

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

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

All right, we need a way to get inot the palace. Any ideas?""Ask nicely? Charge in? Fly? Wait, do you mean reasonable ones?

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life.

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.