Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I want to rip the rest of those buttons open and climb him like a monkey in a banana tree. Oh God, what I would do with his banana...

The woe of wrath comes to whoever does wicked acts.

He's the King of all the heavensAnd all found here below.To Him, your hearts are like this lakeReflecting in His glow.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

I've known Don Mancini for 22 years. We're dear friends. I know his humor, I know his mind.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

I'm not always open to creative input when I have my heart set on a creative idea or a message I want to convey.