I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Better in Hell with me than alone in Heaven.

that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?

If you were a kangaroo you'd forget you've got a joey in your pouch.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.