Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

It's impossible for artists to accept compliments.

I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

The universe falls in love with you

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

Beauty always has something remote.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.