I'm working in my mind.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One works without thinking how to work.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself 'pro-life.

Living in someone's prayers is better than living in this mean world.Voyage to Eternity

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.