But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

I think beauty is an expression of love.

...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.