Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

You were the one girl I wanted who wanted nothing to do with me.

Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.

To feed ten mouths, she had to call on Mr. Welfare.

What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked. Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.

Log Log Log (x) goes off to infinity with x, but has never been observed to do so.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.

My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything