I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

I don't like to meet with people smiles, I always like to meet with the pain of people.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I'm now more about romantic beauty. The dominatrix thing is over. You never look as good in person as you do in 'Maxim, ' but it's fun. It's all like a fantasy.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

Protesting against sexism doesn't mean saying that all men are actively sexist.

Don't let your mind see through your eyes.

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.