Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

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.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

All we're ever looking for is another open door.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.