I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar, ' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.