I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same.

Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.