I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from yourdesk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.