By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

A man should construct meaningful ideas at his own will if he wants to take citizenship responsibilty by helping others pursue their happiness.

The meaning of life is to die living it.

Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.