I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song, in my lilac dawn.

And in that moment she realized none of it was real, and so she set herself free.

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

I really lost vision of the guy and it's on me.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."