I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

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.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.