I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I will not make anymore boring art.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.