I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

I prefer to look up in hope than down in expectation.

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not a liberal in that sense, because i think of liberals as part of that establishment.

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.

The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.