I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

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Art is obsolete now.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.

I do not envy those who live a comfortable life.

If you don’t know your destination, how will you get there?

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

Pizza is like the entire food pyramid!

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.