Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

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.

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, do something for peace.

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?