Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

I live every day as if I can die any moment.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

As a star you never know when people are really serious.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

I don't think fundamentally we should ban him [Donald Trump], I don't think we can go around doing that.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.